The local art society has an exhibition "Together", where they asked for art made together byt children and parents. I got an inspiration from my daughter's mermaid painting, and I sculpet the mermaid as a statue. It is a bit wild and scary mermaid, a bit different from usual, and it is quite big compared to my other sculpts. The exhibition opens tomorrow, and I am excited to see how the mermaid and the painting look there together. I also took there the dragon that we made together with my daughter a few years ago.

The mermaid has a wire skeleton, then bulked up with aluminium foil. Then I made the basic form with Aves Apoxie Sculpt, and sculpted the skin over it wit polymer clay. The scales on the tail are abalone shell pieces mounted in the epoxy clay. Fins are fantasy film and wire, hair is lambswool. It was so much fun to sculpt and be inspired by my daughter's painting, and I am sure we will make more collaborations like this in the future. If you want to see more of my daughter's paintings, you can find them in Instagram. This kind of a bit different work was just perfect for me now, I am inspired to sculpt more after long time!

Yarn bombing today! Our village museum has got some colourful and joyful decorations today. I teached in a workshow with another artist a couple of weeks ago, where we sewed together a pile of knitted and crocheted pieces, and today we went and sewed them on a big tree, fence posts, lamp poles and handrails. How much fun! It was a great collaboration with a bunch of village women, and museum. I hope our art gives all people that pass by or go to the museum a lot of joy!

I have seen lots of pictures of yarn bombing, and always thought how much fun it would be to make one. It was so nice to be asked to be teach in a workshop for this, I enjoyed myself so much, and arent they just so gorgeous and joyful! You can't walk by without a smile.

Consert theme goes on. The last costumed consert I attended was Full moon water concert. I hesitated if I should go and dress-up or not, and when I realizsed it was the same day as a rock festival I had already bought tickets, I decided not to go. But what happened is a different story. I saw all kinds of fun material suitable for a mermaid outfit in trift stores, so I just had to start planning and making a mermaid costume. I made also a crown from shells and pearls, of course a mermaid has to wear a crown. We made a plan with the concert organizers, that I would be a kind of living prop, and they arranged a hanging throne for me. I also danced a bit to one of the songs, oh that was so exciting. The holder of the skies had seen that it was water themed concert, so although it was beautiful and sunny before the concert, it rained heavily during the event, and thunder and lightning made spot on special effects for some of the songs. I had so much fun, it was unforgettable experience to be a mermaid for the first time. After the concert I quickly took the scales and weird make-up off my face, changed to normal clothes and run for the rock concert for the rest of the evening.

I go frequently to trift shops, and once again when going throug some shops, I saw a beautiful turguoise light floral bolero, embroidered with gold yarns. And a matching dress right beside it, oh how lovely fabrics and colours! Immediately I saw 1910's style in them, orientalism was in fashion, and these clothes indeed had oriental vibe in them. So I just had to try them on. But oh no, the dress was too tight, I couldn't close the zipper! I bought them anyway, the price was ridiculously cheap, and I tought I could make something from them. And right after that I found a green fringed scarf in matching green. And a long green dress from the next trift shop... and an orchid brooch from the next one. So the pieces for the next manor concert came to me like they were meant to be. I already had a perfect peacock fan, and suitable shoes too.

But the dress was just so tight. Luckily it was too wide at the hem, so I cut off parts from the sides, and used them to widen the bodice from the back. No one could see it since it is under the bolero. And even if seen, it matches really well, it could be fooled as original design. I bought some turquoise fringe, and added it to the hem, and attached the long green skirt under the dress. I found the purse in an antique market, I just replaced the original orange lining with a turguoise lining, and added some sequins. I didn't have time to find any long opera gloves that should go with this kind of dress, but now I have them too for the next time I wear the dress. I am also planning to sew the proper 1910's corset for this, althought this corset was fine too, the dress doesn't show the body form a lot. I got the perfect necklace from my friend, and I made the earrings myself. My daughter made me the puffy and curly back bum, she is so good with hair isn't she. I am so very happy with the outcome of the whole attire, I think it is really beautiful! I really like the style of this era, Downton Abbey is one of my favourite series, of course.

I have to praise the concert once again. Beautiful poetry from Eino Leino, with words, and singing, in the lovely Korhola manor, with sounds of history around us. So great to have so awesome performers and concert surroundings in our little village. So lovely.

I hope you are not fed up with my costume play... this goes on still for a while. I just want to show you too, because I have had so much fun with these. I would also love some comments, what do you think? But next one will be something totally different!

What is fantasy? Anything you can imagine, even if you had never seen it. Is it true or is it fake... that you just don't know for sure. Fairies, elves, spirits, sprites, mermaids, seirens, whitches, wizards, trolls, gnomes. In the old times people used to truly believe in them. Who wouldn't have heard tales of house gnomes, those little relatives of Christmas elves. There was another strange underground world, and fairies were something else than nice, beautiful fairy-tale sweethearts. They were mischievous, cunning, seductive and even evil beings, who could attract a careless person to their enchanted world forever. What do you believe in? You can experience something magical here, and you may sneak into the dreamlike world of the mystical beings.

Veistoksia vai nukkeja? - Sculptures or Dolls?

Veistoksia! Koska - nukella voi leikkiä, ainakin periaatteessa. No taidenukeilla ei tietenkään varsinaisesti leikitä. Nuken raajat yleensä liikkuvat, ja monesti vaatteet ovat riisuttavat/puettavat. Veistos perinteisesti mielletään pelkästään kovasta materiaalista tehdyksi taide-esineeksi, joten määrittely nuken ja veistoksen välillä näissä töissäni on vähän häilyvä, näillähän on päälle liimatut vaatteet - no, asut - ja hiukset. Eivät ihan perinteisiä veistoksia siis. Mutta miellän ne kumminkin veistoksiksi, enkä mielelläni puhu niistä nukkeina!Sculptures! Because - you can play with a doll, basically. Well, you don't really play with art dolls though. The limbs of a doll are usually posable, and you also can dress/undress a doll. A sculpture is traditionally an art piece made from hard material, so the line between a doll or a sculpture is thin in my work. They do have outfits glued on, and they do hyave real hair. Not traditional sculptures as you could say. But I think they are sculptures, and don't like to use the word doll when talking about them!

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